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Showing posts with label epilepsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label epilepsy. Show all posts

Sunday, November 19, 2017

He is our most important judge right after Simon Cowell (that seems sexist to me)



"Man, it was hot today. It was so hot today, Hillary spoke before the Senate topless. This is such a stupid story. The Washington Post has criticized Senator Hillary Clinton for showing cleavage while speaking in front of the Senate. See, that seems sexist to me. They've never gone after Senator Ted Kennedy for doing the exact same thing." --Jay Leno

"A scary incident yesterday for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. Luckily, he's okay. He collapsed to the ground outside his vacation home in Maine. Turns out he had a seizure. At first people thought he had just fallen over from leaning too far to the right. For the young people, do you know who John Roberts is? He is our most important judge right after Simon Cowell." --Jay Leno
    
http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html #JohnHulsecollectedpoems #Bernie2020 #repealreplacerepublicans

Friday, November 17, 2017

He's now busy defending his much younger wife (showing too much cleavage)



"Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was released from the hospital after he suffered a seizure. It's the second time he's had a seizure. He's doing fine. But, as a precaution, when he returns to the Supreme Court, he will now have a robe that opens in the back." --Jay Leno

"Potential Republican candidate -- he hasn't declared yet, but a lot of people think he's going to run -- Fred Thompson is now busy defending his much younger wife. In a recent interview, Senator Fred Thompson said that all criticism of his wife should be directed at him. As a result, conservative groups told Thompson he's been showing too much cleavage." --Conan O'Brien
     
http://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2016/06/john-hulse-collected-poems-1985-2015.html #JohnHulsecollectedpoems #Bernie2020 #repealreplacerepublicans

Sunday, December 26, 2010

An American with a Disability (poem)



An American with a Disability


Dave’s life
was
a hard one.

epilepsy…
Grand Mal Seizures…

sometimes
his beautiful
face
was smashed
to pieces.

a few times
he was battered
unrecognizable
and covered
in blood.

Dave taught me
what
the term
“healing”
really meant.

one of Dave’s
many horror stories
was that he was
mistakenly arrested

after having a seizure
and being shipped
by the police
to a doctor
50 miles away
for treatment
he didn’t need,

and the police left him
stranded there
without
a ride home.

Dave remembered
waking up
in the hospital
and screaming
out loud,

“Take these damn
handcuffs off
of me,
I am not
a criminal!”

He said the policeman
was too busy
flirting with a nurse
to come over
right away
and take the
cuffs off.

Making this horror
even worse
was that he was transported
with his hands cuffed behind
his back
while his chest
was pressed against
the seat of the squad car
for the entire hour long
journey.

Worse again, was that
he had just had a pacemaker
implanted in his chest
to reduce his seizures.

The police
told Dave's
mom that
he was coherent
all the
way down
to Indianapolis.

If Dave was coherent
like they said,
the first
words out of
his mouth
would have been,

“Please take these
handcuffs off of me,
I am not a criminal!

I have epilepsy!”



Dave Looper died alone in his apartment on or about January 23-24 2002


poem from John Hulse Collected Poems (1985-2015) volume 1